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~2 Jahre hat eine Arbeitsgruppe der Konferenz der unabhängigen Datenschutz-Aufsichtsbehörden von Bund und Ländern (DSK) versucht, Nachbesserungen bei Microsoft 365 zu erreichen.

👉 Zusammenfassung des Berichts der AG zu #MS365: https://datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/media/dskb/2022_24_11_festlegung_MS365_zusammenfassung.pdf

Festlegung der DSK: 👇

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alvar_f/status/1596179727311863809

After two years of negotiations with Microsoft, the joint committee of the German federal data protection authority and 17 state regulators (DSK) published a devastating statement that essentially says that organizations currently cannot use MS365 in a lawful way under the GDPR.

Key issues raised by the DSK working group include that Microsoft's data processing agreement does not make sufficiently clear how Microsoft uses personal data it allegedly processes on behalf of the client for its own business purposes.

This must be escalated to the EU level.

The document states that it's not clear how Microsoft uses personal data on its clients' users for its own 'business purposes' while Microsoft grants itself extensive rights to do so.

It also states that Microsoft generally processes telemetry data for its own purposes at scale.

Microsoft now markets itself as a trustworthy and responsible tech giant, but it's not.

While keeping a friendly face, it works hard to undermine regulation and normalize corporate data misuse, including at work, not to mention its surveillance marketing and defense businesses.

@wchr They don't even need to put so much effort in their “trustworthy" bullshit… Many people already believed that for decades. And when you show them proofs of abuse, like for ex. what M$ did in Tunisia circa 2007, the patent for VoIP interception that M$ filled back in 2011 shortly after they bought skype, or more recently the steps they took to make st harder to install non-M$ OSes, with the help on Lenovo… Their fanboys will just put their hands in their ears and shoot out loud things […]

@wchr […] like "You're paranoid, I have nothing to hide because I'm not a criminal", "but we can trust the contract we have with them!" and "they've changed 10 years ago¹, not hostile anymore. Look! they love open source² !", or whatever M$ PR department wants them to constantly repeat, all over the web… they are so blinded, they literally work in the M$ marketing team for free…

1. Been hearing that BS for 15+ years… Looks like M$ "changed in a positive manner years ago" often… time travel? 🤔

@wchr

2. People who understand the issues with privacy, vendor locking, cloud crap, DRMs, and proprietary software. don't care about "open source" marketing rethorics, they care about libre software. Anyone who prefers to use the term "open source" instead of free (as in libre) software don't give a shit about users rights. Not to mention many open washing stuff include proprietary spywares, especially electronJS crap with built-in google/facebook/other web surveillance companies spywares…